In my TV post last week, I highlighted a few sites on which I’d seen a Bad Apostrophe or two, including GeekZenith. But as I was browsing around his site, I saw several more apostrophe problems in GZ’s stories. In fact, from the half-dozen posts that I clicked into, I found BAs in all but one of them. In short, he has a consistent problem with punctuation.

He really covers the gamut of types of Bad Apostrophes, too. From “it’s”…

… it’s much better counter part …

… it’s fifth season…

… to general possession…

… the terrorists unbridled love…

… to present-tense verbs…

… Sony let’s slip that their Amazing Spider-Man…

… flick Oblivion get’s official synopsis…

… to plurals…

Should the studio’s MAKE this happen…

he filmed his scene’s for the movie

… and even names.

… the ones who flagged up Thano’s making an appearance…

I’m sure that if I kept reading this guy’s site, I’d amass quite the collection of BAs — one to rival that of the Wired writers. But I don’t plan to go back, because aside from the apostrophe errors, he also had lots of other grammar problems and I didn’t find his writing particularly insightful.

Eric Farnsworth has sent us another Bad Apostrophe, putting him well ahead of any other submitter when it comes to sheer number of contributions. He’s always asking me, “Is this a BA, or is it correct?” Well this time, it certainly is a BA.

Obama let’s us vote …

I asked him where he found this political cartoon, and he replied, “from an annoying friend who’s about to get unfriended cuz that’s all she posts all day long… Oh wait, you meant originally… No. It was posted on one of those FB pages that’s nothing but funny crap people share.” I haven’t been able to track down an original source. If you know where this came from, please let me know in the comments.

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The purpose of this site is to expose the terrible injustice that occurs when someone puts an apostrophe into a word or situation where it doesn’t belong. I focus mainly on professional writing that should be a) written properly in the first case, and b) copy-edited, rather than Joe Internet’s errant Facebook post, but if you find any examples that bug you, feel free to pass them along!

If I've found a Bad Apostrophe in your writing and it can be easily removed (e.g. in an Internet article), fix it and let me know. I'll be happy to update my post by adding something like the following: "Randy Writer let us know that he has fixed his original article. Great job, Randy!"